Video: Blue Jays' Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Named Cover Athlete for MLB The Show 24

Toronto Blue Jays star Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is the cover athlete for MLB The Show 24.

The cover was revealed on Tuesday as part of a documentary about Guerrero being filmed in his home country of the Dominican Republic by the makers of the video-game series:

The cover features Guerrero putting his fingers to his lips to indicate the "quiet" gesture.

During the 2021 season, Guerrero told Shi Davidi of SportsNet.ca he makes the gesture after hitting homers "basically just to let my work do the talking."

Ramone Russell, MLB The Show's product development, communications and brand strategist for Sony, told MLB.com's David Adler it was a "really easy" decision to select Guerrero for the cover of this year's game and the process of filming him in the Dominican:

"I'm pretty sure we were the first sports video game developing studio to do this. We said, 'Hey Vlad, instead of you coming to San Diego [where the game is produced], how about we go to your hometown, and you show us some of the places that are really important to your life and how you grew up?' So our fans can connect the dots and see that through-line of everything he went through to become such a great athlete and now be on the cover of the game."

This is also a historic moment for the Guerrero family. Vladimir Guerrero was the cover athlete for MLB 2006, which was the final version of the previous iteration of the series before it became The Show.

Guerrero Jr. joins a list of recent cover athletes that includes Shohei Ohtani, Fernando Tatis Jr., Jazz Chisholm Jr., Javier Báez, Bryce Harper and Aaron Judge.

MLB The Show 24 drops on March 19 for the PlayStation 5, XBox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch.